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From the fire incident at the Royal Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya in 1997. The tragic event inspired Mr. Phanawatnan to begin his research to develop equipment for helping people to fight at the early stage and to stop the spread and damage of fire. He felt deeply depressed by seeing the deaths of electrician that were joining the seminar at the 30th floor, a valuable of the electricity Authority found that there are foreigners. Moreover, a large number of foreigners died by falling down from high floor. As the investigation, the fires are caused by cooking from the ground floor. At the first sight, the fire occurred as a small flame. The hotel officer did not dare to reach the fire base by using fire extinguishing tank by sweeping the nozzle from side to side at the base of the fire, moving carefully toward the fire. Most portable fire extinguishers must be used from a distance of 1.8 meters to be effective. From this cause, the fire is burning and nobody can stop it. The fire spread out almighty and rapidly in every direction and the residents need to survive by escaping from the fire burning. People waited for the fire tuck but the fire station is far away and the traffic was terrible. People do want to help but could not do much things just sit and waited for the fire truck. From this damage, more than 90 people died and the properties were burned away.

Mr. Phanawatnan then invented the equipment that can stop the fire from the beginning. He abides by the principle of natural fire and automatic stimulation. Firefighting equipment must always. Thus, they do not need to maintain and worry that the device will work or not and it does not need to use electric power for activation. It shall be equipped with a lightweight and self-activating which means it will be automatically activated when it comes into contact with a flame.

Mr. Phanawatnan has a specific work experience as the safety Officer in manufacturing companies for more than 10 years, including depression of being witness the tragic fire event, all have pushed his idea comes true. His invention, a Fire Extinguishing Ball was created on the basic fire science, involving three conditions that must be present to support a fire. The three conditions consist of a fuel or substance that will burn. Second, there must be plenty of oxygen that could not less than17%, usually comes from the surrounding air. Lastly, there must be a heat source such as flames and sparks. When the fire grows bigger, it will raise the high temperature and makes the fuel sparked easily but harder to extinguish because of higher heating temperature, causing more losses. If the process of fire extinguishing is delay, the fire will terribly burn to level 3 (5minutes or more fire). At that time, a lot of water is needed to extinguish the fire as a fire truck. However, nowadays the city streets are narrow and there is heavy traffic. Therefore, the fire truck could not drive easily, causing the delay in fire extinguishing fire. Having automatic firefighting equipment that when there is a flame, the firefighting equipment will work immediately and there will be a loud noise warning the public.

Under the above principal, Mr. Phanawatnan invented the Fire Extinguishing Ball that automatically activates when lobbed into a fire and simultaneously dispersing common fire extinguish chemicals in 360-degree radius. It will disrupt the chain reaction and instantly cut off reaction and instantly cut off the reaction and instantly cut off the reaction of heat, the fuel and oxygen. The outward circular force from the Fire Extinguishing Ball explosion will assist in removing the oxygen from the fire area, and the dry chemical will extinguish the fire. Also, it is created under a simple function that everyone can use it easily. He then is being call respectfully regarding his ability as “The inventor of 5 Genius Gold Medallist Awards”

In 2003, the fire extinguishing ball received the support from the letter of the Prime Minister’s Office on no.0104.21/10086, November 20,2002 and the Department of Science Service The Ministry of Science and Technology is currently the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (TISTR), December2, 2002 according to the letter to support the fire extinguishing ball inventions on no.0301/2592 Hence, the department has developed this manual in cooperation with many experts, who have experiences on testing fire extinguishers, as follows.

1. Dr. Itthi Bijayendrayodhin Director-General, Department of Science Service, Thailand
2. Mr. Chaiwut Lauvant Deputy Director-General, Department of Science Service, Thailand
3. Mr.Chumpot Konkaew Secretary General, Department of Science Service Thailand
4. Mr.Chobvit Lubpaire Former Minister Counselor for Science& Technology, Royal Thai Embassy, Brussel
5. Pol.Lt.Col. Vichai Chongthavorn Fire Brigade Chief Inspector, Royal Thai Police Enforcement Bureau
6. Mr.Sopon Pongsopon Director, Thailand Central Region Safety Center, Samutprakarn
7. Mr.Vipark Dhanaraj Director, National Safety Council of Thailand (NSCT)
8. Mr.Preechapol Tiyanan Policy and Planning Analyst Level6, Human Resource Development Office, Public Safety and Protection Department, Interior Ministry
9. Mr.Kittipong Potirucht Fire Extinguishing Ball Testing Expert
10. Fire Extinguishing Ball Testing Expert
11. Fire Extinguishing Ball Testing Expert
12. Fire Extinguishing Ball Testing Expert

Many Special thanks will be extended to Mr. Woradech Kaimart, the inventor of the Fire Extinguishing Ball, for providing us with a number of fire extinguishing balls for use in the tests and for his other various supports in the fulfilment of this testing manual.

Especially, Mr.Phanawatnan Kaimart is an inventor who has supported by giving a number of fire extinguishing ball to be tested. As a consequence, the fire extinguishing ball has a standard in testing and firefighting issued by the department of Science Service Ministry of Science and Technology, February 2003. Considered as a new standard in the world by having the testing manual for fire extinguishing ball which indicates the type of fire as following:

1. Class A* fires are fires in combustible metals, such as magnesium, titanium, zirconium, sodium, and potassium.
2. Class B* extinguishment is the extinguishment of class B fires by applying the specific mount of the ball for monitoring the fires before extinguishing.
3. Class C* extinguishment is the extinguishment of the fires caused by an electrical short circuit. It is applied with the specific mount of the ball for monitoring the fires before extinguishing.

This standard is considered as the origin of other countries’ standards because each country uses the information from this standard to set their own standards.